Revealing Quotes - Page 7

• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

  Paul de Man

  Fashion, Fire, Flames

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

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• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

  Michael Chekhov

  Imagination, Acting, Actors

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen
  all you have to do is take your clothes off
  and all is wiped away revealing life tenderness
  that we are flesh and breathe and are near us
  as you are really as you are I become as I
  really am alive and knowing vaguely what is
  and what is important to me above the intrusions
  of incident and accidental relationships
  which have nothing to do with my life

  Frank O'Hara

  I Love You, Clothes, Feelings

  "Love Poems".

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• I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Marcos, Pathetic

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I had a classic case of what people call "seeker's disease." That was part of my journey, but now, meaning is like a secret that's revealing itself moment by moment, day by day.

  Roger Housden

  Journey, People, Secret

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.

  Elliott Sober

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Objectivity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Issues, Progress

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• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  Marcel Proust

  Powerful, Heart, Intelligent

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• Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

  Drake

  Humble, Mirrors, Looks

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• If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the defamers of the truth, refrain from writing down, speaking, or declaring it to each other? Ah! It would be too impudent to hide the talent which God has given us, we who ought to have the grace to persevere to the end. Amen!

  Marie Dentiere

  Writing, Grace, Good Woman

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Science

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

  Simon Schama

  Forever, Shadow, Inability

  "Dead Certainties". Book by Simon Schama, p. 320, 1991.

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• And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiration, Hymns, Addiction

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• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.

  Brian McGinn

  Feelings, Guts, Courses

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.

  Cass McCombs

  Block, Character, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a political culture of hyper-punitiveness has become normalized. Revealing itself in a blatant display of unbridled arrogance and power, it is unchecked by any sense of either conscience or morality.

  Henry Giroux

  Political, Arrogance, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Because we're always more woundable when caught at exactly the time where we're in the mood for that particular product or service - and as Big Data increasingly are able to pick up on clues revealing desire - automated systems are increasingly able to hit at exactly those moments, across those channels we move - with an offer matching exactly what we're desiring.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Moving, Data, Desire

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

  Douglas Adams

  Mind, Facts, Cry

  Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people tell a story is so revealing and I think it's important as an actress to see all the different ways people can unravel a story, and introduce the characters and the way people speak.

  Emma Roberts

  Fun, Book, Character

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.

  Joan Jett

  Breakup, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

  David Duchovny

  Ideas, Sound, Needs

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• I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

  John Galliano

  Clothes, Body, Layers

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